Brain Windows

THOSE WITCHES! is a worksheet that guides students in an exploration of the purpose for the witches in Macbeth. What do they do, and why is it important? The 2-page document starts with a chart that asks students to recall what the witches do in the four scenes of the play where they appear. After that section, students are invited to explore lenses they can use to contextualize the witches' purpose(s) in the play. How do the weird sisters drive the plot, symbolize abstract ideas, antagonize ot

Use this character thought bubble graphic organizer any way you like! I like to have students think about how a character changes over the course of a story or novel, so there are 3 bubbles-- beginning, middle, and end. On the back of the page, I have students explain the evolution of the character in an analytical paragraph.

This is a one-page, student-friendly flowchart that walks the viewer through scoring the prose analysis question (Q2) for essays AFTER 2019. This is a PDF. (A JPG version is also available if you prefer to embed in your documents.)

Have students use descriptors from actual psychological evaluations to analyze Ophelia's behavior and "madness" in Act IV, scene 5 of Hamlet. Two pages of chart-based analysis ask students to evaluate Ophelia's: presenting symptoms, changes from known behavior, and specific cognitive traits and noncognitive measures.